INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

INTERNSHIPS PROGRAM

Overview: We are currently seeking motivated high school, college, and graduate students in each of our participating cities to assist us here at Noise and the City! Opportunities range from community engagement to community noise monitoring. If you are interested, please fill out our application HERE.

Location: Noise and the City is located in Brookline, Massachusetts and at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Our interns will work remotely. Boston based interns can work either remotely or at our office.

Work Schedule: Given the independent nature of this job, interns must be able to work without direct in-person supervision. Interns should expect to work between 8 -10 hours per week with an additional 30 minute bi-weekly meeting either in person (if intern is in the Boston area or via Skype if the intern is located outside of Boston). Continue reading HERE…

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I thank you for your work. I believe it is very important. I feel, and I said this before, that the ambulance industry is not regulated or monitored in my city of Cambridge, given the nature of their work, i.e., getting people in emergencies to a hospital. I do not believe the drivers use discretion with their sirens at all. Actually, I’m sure a few might. But I do observe them and feel they do the same thing when they really don’t have to. Police, ditto.
You can sometimes see (and HEAR) that they use discretion. But at 1:l5AM on side streets and major roads as well? Broadway in Cambridge is a central artery for police and I don’t feel there is anywhere near enough discretion on their use of sirens. Blaring, horrific noise. I cannot believe that we have state-of-the-art sirens here. And I have a question for you. What is the role of the Registry of MV in checking people for deafness or difficulty in hearing sirens? Construction noise bothers me a lot less: it is a given of a certain day or week. Sirens are scary sounds, not that I’m scared, and never expected. As a driver I am sometimes badly startled by an unexpected siren. Not safe. Thank you for listening!

Would you like to be featured in our community sound portrait series? I moderate comments on this blog, this is why your comment did not show up right away. Thank you for reaching out. It is very nice to hear your story. Check out the other portraits here: portraits.noiseandthecity.org